Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-09-14

around the room will whisper: "Who
she? Amt she beautiful and if you wi
listen right sharply, you will hear drippin
down through the leaky roof and rollin
over the rotten stairs, the angel chant tina
shook Bethlehem: "Glory to God in th
highest, and on earth peace, good will t
men," Can you tell me why Christia
woman, going among the haunts of iniquit
on Christian errand, never meets wit
any indignity? 1 stood in the chapel O
Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the cele
brated Chalmers, in the most abandoned
part of the city of Edinburgh; and said t.
her as ! looked around upon the fearfu
surroundings of that place: "Do you conn
here nights to hold services?" so, yes,
she said. "Can it be possible that yol
never meet with an insult while performing
this Christian errand?" Never" sht
said, "never." That young woman wht
has her father by her side walking dowr
the street, an armed police at each corner
is not SO we'll defended as that Christian
woman who goes forth on Gospel work into
the haunts of iniquity, carrying the Bible
and bread. God, with the red right arm oi
His wrath omnipotent. would tear to pieces
any one who should offer indignity, He
would smlte him with lightnings, and
drown him with floods, and swallow him
with earthquakes, and damn him with
eternal indignations. Some one said: 81
dislike very much to see that Christian wo-
school. am afraid to have her instruct
them" $780," said another, man, 81 am
afraid, too" Said the first: II am afraid
they will use vile language before they
leave the place. ssAh," said the other
man, 81 am not afraid of that. What am
afraid of is, that if any of those boys should
use bad word in that presence, the other
boys would tear HIM to pieces and kill him
on the spot" That woman is the best
sheltered who is sheltered by the Lord God
Almighty, and you need never fear going
anywhere where God tells you to 60.
1t seems as if the Lord had ordained wo-
man for an especial work in the solicits tion
OF charities. Backed up by barrels in
which there is no -four, and by stoves in
which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in
which there are no clothes, a woman is ir-
reslstible. Passing on her errand, God says
to her: You go into that bank or store,
or shop, and get the money" She goes in
and gets it. The man is hard-fisted, but
she gets it. She could not help but get it.
1t is decreed from eternity she should get
it. No need of your turning your back and
pretending you don't hear; you do hear.
There is no need of your saying you are
begged to death. There is no need of your
wasting your time, and you might as we'll
submit first as last. You had better right
away take down your check book, mark the
number of the check, fill up the blank, sign
your name and hand it to her. There is no
need of wasting time. Those poor children
on the back street have been hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have some-
thing to ease his cough. I meet this dele.
G tie Of relief society coming out of the
store cf such a hard-fsted man and say
..'Did you get the money!" "Of course,
she says, II got the money; that's what !
went for. The Lcrd told me to 90 in and
get it, and He never SENDS me on FOOLS
er1and."
Again, have to tell you that it is wo.
mans specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel; but all profane as we'll as sa.
cred history, attests that when the crisis
comes she is better prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen a woman who seemed to be disciple
of frivolity and Incidence, who, under one
stroke Of calamity, changed to a heroine.
Oh, what a great mistake those business
men make who never tell their business
troubles to their wives! There comes some
great loss to their store, Or some Of their
companions in business play them sad
trick, and they carry the burden all alone.
He is asked in the household again and
again: What is the matter? but he believes
it a sort of Christian duty to keep all that
trouble within his own sonl. Oh, sir your
first duty was to tell your wife all about it..
She, perhaps, might not have disentangled
your finances, or extended your credit, but
she would have helped you to bear misfor-
tune. You have no right to carry On one
shoulder that which is intended for two.
There are business men,h here who know
what mean. There came crisis in your
affairs. You struggled bravely and long;
but after awhile there came day when you
said: ''Here I shall have to STOP" and you
called in your partners, and you called in
the most prominent men in your employ.
and you said: 'We have got to stop'
You left the store suddenly. You could
hardly make up your mind to pass through
the street, and over on the ferry boat. You
felt everybody would be looking at you, and
blaming you, and denouncing you. You
hastened home. You told your wife all
about the affair. What did she say? Did
she play the butterfly? Did she talk abou,
the silks, and the ribbons, and the fashions:
No. She came up to the emergency. She
quailed not under the stroke She helped
you to begin to plan right away. She offer.
ed to go out of the comfortable house into
a smaller one, and wear the old cloak an.
other winter. She was one who understood
your affairs without blaming you. You
looked upon what you thought was a thin,
weak woman's arm holding you up; but
while you looked at that arm there came
into the feebler muscles of it the strength o
the eternal God. No chiding. No fretting
No telling you about the beautiful house Of
her father, from which you brought her.
ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. Yor
said: swell, this is the happiest day of my
life. l am glad have got from under my
burden. My wife don't care-I don't care. >
| AT the moment you we're utterly exhausted
God sent Deborah to meet the host of tht
Amalekites and scatter them like chaff ovel
the plain. There are sometimes womer
who sit reading sentimental novels, an6
who wish that they had some grand field ir
which to display their Christian powers
Oh, what grand and glorious things thev
could do if they only had an opportunity
Nv sister, you need not wait for any sucf
time. A crisis will come in your affairs
There will be Thermopyls in your OWE
household where God will tell you to stand
There are scores and hundreds of house
holds to-day where as much bravery anG
courage are demanded of women as was ex
hibited by Grace Darling, or Marie Auto
inette, or Joan Of Arc.
Again remark, it is woman's right te
bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is
easier for woman to be Christian thar
for man. Why? You say she is weaker
No. Her heart is more responsive to the
pleading of divine love. She is in vastma.
jjority The fact that she can more easily
become Christian, prove by the state.
ment that three fourths of the members ol
the churches in all Christendom are women.
So God appoints them to be the chief agen.
cies tor bringing this world back to God.-
l may stand here and say the soul is i'm
mortal. There is a man who will refute it.
l may stand here and say we are lost and
undone without Christ There is a man
who will refute it. may stand here and
say there will be judgment day after a
while. Yonder is some one who will refute
it. But Christian woman in Christian
household living in the faith and the con.